BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 September 1923, Page 7

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) “IS IT PEACE?” LONDON, September 20. Mr Lloyd George’s book entitled “Is it Peace?” is being published next week, and contains an important and previously unpublished statement on the Reparations. NAVAL MISHAP. NEW YORK, September 19. At Boston one was killed and several injured in a collision between the United States destroyer McFarland and the battleship Arkansas during manoeuvres. INTERNATIONAL POLO. NEW YORK, September 19. At Westbury, the American Meadowbrook Club defeated the British Hurlingham team by 11 to 4, thus eliminating Hurlingham from the American polo championship tournament. DUTCH NAVY ECONOMIES. AMSTERDAM, September 19. In consequence of financial stringency, it was decided to postpone the Dutch Naval Bill, which provided for the establishment of a stronger navy and the fortification of the Dutch East Indies. BRITISH EMIGRANTS. LONDON, September 20. A Board of Trade return for the first half of 1923 shows 112.268 Britishers emigrated overseas, compared with 95.234 in the corresponding period of 1922. The emigration to the United States increased by 22,783; that to Canada bv 17,444, and to Australia by 842. That to New Zealand decreased by 2280. CANADIAN LOAN. OTTAWA, September 19. The Canadian Government has negotiated a loan of 50,000,000 dollars at 5 per cent, in 20-year bonds. The principal and interest are payable in Canada. The bonds have been purchased by a Canadian Syndicate. This is the biggest domestic loan in Canadian history outside the war loans.

WIRELESS DIFFICULTIES.

LONDON, September 20.

Air John Scott Taggart, addressing the British Association, declared that wireless communication was becoming increasingly difficult, owing to ether congestion, which was due to the necessity of using longer wave lengths for long-distance work, and the fact that all high-power stations were broadcasting stations. LOURDES PILGRIMS. LONDON, September 20. The “Daily Express” states 450 men, women, and children, including 70 invalids, have arrived back in London from an English pilgrimage to Lourdes in France. The sufferers tried to smile bravely, but some, were returning from a third and fourth pilgrimage uncured. No cures were reported among this year’s English pilgrims. CRICKET. LONDON, September 19. O’Keefe, who leads in the Lancashire League batting tourney, scored 3.525 runs, with an average of 37.50. AlacDonald heads bowling with 112 wickets at an average of 6.67.

In the cricket week at Hastings, a team led by Hon. L. Tennyson made 165 (Rhodes 79 not out). Yate took 5 for 62 and Gilligan 4 for 49. Gilligan’s team lost 0 for 24, when rain stopped play. WAR VETERANS’ TROUBLES. SAN FRANCISCO, September 19. Telegrams from Los Angeles state that twenty-nine British war veterans who arrived aboard the .yacht Frontiersman to make arrangements in the interests of a British airplane tligK around the world next year, have fallen into difficulties. The Federal officials seized the yacht for violation of the liquor law, commercial firms have twice labelled the vessel for alleged debts, and their ship’s surgeon is ill with malaria fever. Funds and supplies are short and the men expect to go to work.

BUXTON EXPEDITION. LONDON, September 20. The chief object of the Buxton Expedition! to the South Seas is to study elephantiastis and filariasis. The latter is believed to be the chief cause of the decline in the Polynesian population. An attempt will be made to exterminate the mosquito. A beginning will probably be made with the smaller islands. Pure water will be supplied. Instead of the native method of storing it in artificially hollowed trees, airways will be cut through the undergrowth in order to allow the trade winds to blow through.